The Chhattisgarh accountant general (AG) has hauled up the state government for its "unjustified and avoidable" expenditure of over Rs. 90 crore on publicity via advertisements to electronic channels and newspapers and on travel, living arrangements for visiting journalists.

The BJP advertisements targeting AAP that are appearing in daily newspapers are making a lot of noise in the Capital’s poll season. HT found that the ad campaign had initially been planned for the social media and not for the newspapers.

The RSS in an article in its journal has said the BJP named Kiran Bedi as its chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming Delhi assembly elections after the saffron party got "adverse feedback" from the field against its state unit, the Indian Express reported on Tuesday.